I’m very excited to announce that the 8th beta of Retrospect-GDS is available for immediate download. Unless there are some major issues, this will be the last beta version before the final production release!
I’ve done a lot in this release to reduce the complexity of the software and to make it easier to install [...]

It’s come to my attention that the automated installer in 2.0b7 does not correctly select the new Summerbreeze theme in the config.php file. It uses the old default theme instead. To use the new theme, edit your config.php and change $g_theme = ‘default’ to $g_theme = ’summerbreeze’. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I think its time to make some changes to the way the language translations are handled in Retrospect-GDS. With the addition of several new languages recently, some issues have come up with displaying the proper character sets.
Gettext is currently used to handle the translation functions, but it seems to be creaking under [...]